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Been a while since I've posted. Ran into some minor issues on the car. Got under it and replaced the oil pan gasket, valve cover gasket, motor mounts, tranny mounts. However when I got done it ran poorly, and the steering had an odd pulsing, as if the power steering was turning on and off. The brake "blink" was still there as well.

I determined that the poor running was the O2 sensor. It had been replaced at some point with a generic one, so I yanked that and put a proper factory one back in. I also replaced the brake bomb as I determined that was the cause of the brake blink, as well as the stiff brake pedal.

Well, while I was at this I decided to go ahead and do the strut mounts and rear shock mounts since I already had the parts. After removing one front strut (Bilstein HD's), I checked it's action and it locked down and would not return. The rears are ok though. So now I need to replace the front shocks. I'm also pretty sure the power steering pump is shot, so I'm going to do that as well. I lucked out and found a used front set of Bilstein HD's for $50 shipped, so those are on the way, and I'll go get a power steering pump sometime this week. I'll update all the costs later. Hopefully this will get it back on the road and I can get an emissions test so that I can register the car properly.